Chicago Restaurant Week 2014 Coverage

Interviews with chefs, insights into menus, and a whole mess of prix fixe. Restaurant Week Mapped Out Restaurant Week has expanded to a two-week culinary event this year, and more than 250 of the city’s restaurants are participating. You’re going to need a map. Six Reservations Worth Making We narrow the list of 245 restaurants down to six, highlighting a few of 2013's trendy upstarts as well as some perennial favorites ADA STREET | 1664 N. Ada St. | Menu ($33) Find out how Ada Street is using Restaurant Week to honor female chefs like Alice Waters and Julia Child. MEXIQUE | 1529 W. Chicago Ave. | Menu ($44) Top Chef contestant Chef Carlos Gaytan on his Mexican-French fusion cuisine. RIVA | 700 E. Grand Ave. | Menu ($22, $33, or $44)  Acie Boyd is a flute player, a scuba diver, a union member, and Navy Pier’s most requested server. He’s tells all about his tenure at Navy Pier’s premier establishment, including its most popular dish, cioppino. SPIAGGIA | 908 N. Michigan Ave. | Menu ($22 or $33) Chef Tony Mantuano (Top Chef Masters, James Beard Award) on his busy 2014. CARRIAGE HOUSE | 1700 W. Division St. | Menu ($44) Chef Mark Steuer brings lowcountry cuisine from Charleston to Chicago. As our Carolina-native writer can attest: “lowcountry cuisine [is] onomatopoeia in action: five smooth syllables that are buttermilk biscuits, bags of boiled peanuts, iron vats of corncobs and shrimp.”   A10 | 1462 E. 53rd St. | Menu ($44) Chef Matthias Merges three-course dinner brought our writer back to childhood memories, which included a (pleasant!) comparison between A10's ricotta gnudi and Cream of Wheat.